This is a study of the broad scope of cognition verbs in Afrikaans. Firstly, the nonmetaphorical
cognition verbs [e.g. ken (= know), weet (= know), dink (= think), verstaan
(= understand)] are discussed and then the ...

Silozi is one of the local languages of Namibia with over 200 thousand mother-tongue speakers. The aim of this study is to examine the language situation in the Malozi Community of Caprivi and to identify the factors ...

The focus of this study is on language maintenance and shift in Maale, a minority language spoken in Ethiopia. The main aims of the study are to give an account of the underlying social factors that have contributed to ...

This thesis explores the phenomenon of language shift and maintenance in the Greek community of Johannesburg, which is the largest Greek community in South Africa. The main aim of the study is to provide an account of the ...

The aim of the study is to provide an account of the present state of Portuguese in the Johannesburg Portuguese community, and to identify factors influencing the maintenance of, and shift from the mother tongue.
South ...

This study takes place within a school situated on the north eastern side of Soshanguve, a township to the north of the capital city, Pretoria, also called Tshwane. The school draws most of its learners from an area that ...

On the assumption that different registers of translated drama have different functions and that
they therefore present information differently, the aim of the present study is to identify textual
features that distinguish ...

This study investigates undergraduate students’ vocabulary size, and their use of formulaic language. Using the Vocabulary Levels Test (Laufer and Nation 1995), it measures the vocabulary size of native and non-native ...

In this thesis, the phenomenon of intercategorial polysemy is approached from
two related but previously unconnected perspectives, namely that of linguistic
creativity and mental representation. It is argued that the ...

Cognitive linguists posit that language as a system of meaning is closely related to cognition and to the associated perceptual and physiological structures of the body. From the cognitive semantic viewpoint, cognitive ...

Although research has shm1·n that reading stwtegy instruction bene.fits poor
reoders.
research also sholl's that teachers continue to struggle with reading strategy instruc:tion and
remain resistal1l ...

Multiple-choice questions are acknowledged to be difficult for both English mother-tongue and second-language university students to interpret and answer. In a context in which university tuition policies are demanding ...

This study compares simultaneously interpreted German speech to non-interpreted German discourse in order to determine whether interpreted language is characterised by any of the laws that have been found to feature in ...

The relationship between phonological skills and reading has not been studied extensively in the African languages spoken in South Africa. This study focuses on phonological skills and reading in emergent bilingual Northern ...

The lack of terminology in Zulu can be overcome if it is developed to meet international scientific and technical demands. This lack of terminology can be traced back to the absence of proper language policy implementation ...

This thesis examines the way in which purpose and identity are realised in the written case
reports of radiography students in comparison with those of professional writers. Students
entering a new discourse community ...

Focuses on Grade 1 reading skills in Northern Sotho at a high poverty school where a reading intervention project was implemented over a four-year period, aims at building a culture of reading at the school by creating ...